At a public meeting with South Maui residents, MECO agreed to move the substation mauka of Kamali’i Elementary School and to consider undergrounding the wires mauka of Pi’ilani Hwy.
2008 Clean Energy Initiative Available Online
From Disappeared News By Henry Curtis Imagine having ratepayers finance a utility program that the HECO Companies use to thwart community involvement. HECO PDFs documents so they can’t be searched or copied. When you try to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) you get numerous errors. One letter becomes two different letters, two letters become a […]
HECO Plan Meetings
Meetings have been scheduled across the state to receive public comment on Integrated Resource Planning being filed by Hawaiian Electric, Maui Electric and Hawaii Electric Light Company. The utilities’ goal is to file an Integrated Resource Planning Report for each company with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission by June 28, 2013. The Report will includes […]
Life of the Land’s Comments on State Energy Plan
In the past few years the rate of solar installations in Hawai`i has doubled each year. The HECO utilities experienced peak energy use in 2004. Since then the demand for electricity from the grid has been dropping. Mayes introduced the concept of “cascading natural deregulation.” As the cost of renewable systems trends downward and electric […]
Life of the Land Issues Report on Hawaii’s Energy Future
Read Life of the Land’s Energy Report From Sophie Crocker writing for Civil Beat …The main takeaway: the state can and should be generating 90 percent of its electricity by 2030 from sources such as rooftop solar and small-scale wind that power a single home or neighborhood. Referred to in the industry as distributed generation, […]